Is wheezewort the only legit heat sink?

[Senf]

There are lots of tools to disperse and reroute heat in the game, but is there anything you can do to legitimately lower the temperature of anything in the game?

[RTG]

There is the enthropy neutraliser which occasionaly spawns in ice bioms. Produces negative
i believe 800Watts of heat energy when fed with hydrogen (just 2 gramms or so per second). Numbers from memory.

[AquaX]

There are heat nullifiers that are in ice biomes that remove 400w of heat a sec for every 10g of hydrogen. I think there are 4 total throughout the world. Becareful, they can freeze things pretty well if designed right.

[Angelous Wang]

The only other tried an true method is water cooling, you need water to ether drip onto the object countiously or flow past it (on the floor) countiously.

As you can tell by the thermal transfer hud, water is pretty much always blue meaning it makes things cooler just by touching it.

[Anzariel]

You could try making a empty pool of about 20 blocks, then put a container in it, and put ice in it. 20 000 kilograms, you destroy the container, and that ice will slowly transform into a pool of frigid water.

oh, and about cooling down water? try it with polluted water instead, because it has a freezing temperature of -20 Celcius.

[Monkeysam]

If you have plenty of power, oil cooling works really pretty well, so long as you don't want to go below -40.. what you do is put a liquid cooler in a pool of oil, run that same oil though the cooler with a pump in the oil.. insulate most of the container, and make one part of the container out of metal (to transfere the cold out of the container.) The net effect is that the oil cools and can get down to -40 (although for safty I'd make sure you don't get it below -30 as it may freeze in the pipes).

if you want to go lower say -270 enough to freeze polluted oxygen.. you need a hydrogen bubbler.. (look it up on you tube)

[Varenvel The Festive Dinosaur]

weezeworts are nice as you can just slap them anywhere where it gets too warm , they are rare , but they run for free

[SamuraiJones]

If you're trying to cool a device or room, a slow trickle of cool water has always worked best for me, but I don't think that's what you're asking.

But if you're looking at the longterm and thinking "if I keep dumping heat in the ice biomes, they'll all melt" perspective, then yes, wheezeworts and thermonulifiers are the ways to truly remove (rather than relocate) heat. I think hydrofans do too, but those take water and dupes, neither of which I've been able to spare.


There's another thing you can do, although I'm on my first playthrough and haven't got to try it yet. There's a thing called a "void geyser" (I think? I read about it but haven't found it yet) that destroys anything you put into it. Kinda a reverse geyser, but you can use it to destroy heated stuff.

Basically, you can build a bunch of thermo aquatuners (or whatever), and dump all your waste heat into some excess fluid/gas. Then pump the super-hot waste into the geyser, where it disappears along with its heat.

The downside is that it sounds kinda complex. I've never gotten outside the -10 to 50 degrees C range, so I'm not sure how hard it is to make sure pipes aren't bursting or melting or anything. Also, you need some endless supply of waste material and lots of power. But that is an option.

[Meat Man (Alfons)]

Originally posted by RedTear:

There is the enthropy neutraliser which occasionaly spawns in ice bioms. Produces negative
i believe 800Watts of heat energy when fed with hydrogen (just 2 gramms or so per second). Numbers from memory.

*400watts and 10g per second

Still a lot and somewhat cheap, definately the best way to cool things down